We’re having our once-a-year four day sale on BeerSmith Home Brewing Software this Labor Day weekend. Purchase an electronic key to register your copy of BeerSmith for $16.49 (25% off the regular price which is $21.95) this weekend only if you order via paypal (all major credit cards accepted).  The sale runs from late Friday [...] […]

Name – Satsuma Harvest Wit Country – United States Type – Witbier Appearance – Pour a pretty hazy straw yellow color with a big white head. Smell – Wheat and orange rind seem to be the main things I get. Taste – Wheat, bitter orange, coriander and some other spices to it.  Has a pretty [...] […]

After 4 months of growing hops in the backyard, I was able to reap the benefits of homegrown hops.  All the spiny flowers transformed into cones very quickly and grew and grew until they started to dry out a bit on the bine. Maybe I’m lucky, but I was able to get some cones from the first year of the [...] […]

Trappist ale is a beer brewed originally by Trappist monks. The style and its substyles (Enkel, Dubbel and Tripel) have also been popularized by many microbreweries over the last 30 years. This week, we take a look at the popular Trappist style and how to formulate recipes to brew this beer at home. […]

As part of the run up to the Great American Beer Festival Denver’s Westword features the relatively new Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe. Co-owner James Pachorek comes across a little, well, cheeky. One particular paragraph got me thinking. In fact, Pachorek was amazed at how quickly craft brewers had been able to make beers that [...] […]

One of 4 recycling bins at a recent beer tasting.  A beer drinkers dream bin. Photo by Charlie Papazian So much beer not enough time. So much beer news not enough time. So much fun to have not enough time. I’ve been traveling a lot during August and not able to be as regular as I’d like to be. Here’s a bit of catching up on the Examiner.com beer news as reported by area beer Examiners. I’m trying to keep up with the days while now I’m off to Brussels to get knighted. No need to call me Sir Charles. Just keep my glass filled with good beer and the news... […]

Name – Prickly Pear Braggot (Brothers’ Reserve Series) Country – United States Type – Braggot Appearance – Poured an absolutely clear orange color.  There was a super thin white head but it was gone before I could even snap a picture. Smell – Honey and booze is pretty much all I get in the nose.  [...] […]

It seems that craft brewing and the interest in craft beer has snowballed this summer. Here’s a summary of just a few stories in August that have caught my attention.  Keep in mind that old news is better than no news.  I've been away on an island for the past 10 days and this is the reason for my 2 week hiatus from National Beer Examiner jottings. The Great American Beer Festival celebrates 29 years.  An account of the early years of the Great American Beer Festival. Interviews with early participants such as Alaskan Brewing Company’s Geoff Larson, Boston... […]

Name – He’Brew Rejewvenator 2010 Country – United States Type – Doppelbock Appearance – Pours a mostly clear dark red color with a thin off white head. Smell – Dark fruit really is the main scent.  There is some faint malt character too. Taste – You most certainly get the grapes in this but there [...] […]

I think the best way to get some research into beer styles is to go to a great beer pub and taste a whole bunch of examples right in a row.  That’s what the Dudes have planned tonight.  We are heading out to the Publick House in Brookline, MA to conduct some beer style research. Yeah, [...] […]

Some of you may recall the Coffee District as the location of the MikeLovesBeer.com 2 Year Anniversary party back in June.  Well now it’s time for the Coffee District to celebrate their own birthday. This whole upcoming weekend CD will be having their birthday in style and it all kicks off this Thursday, September 2nd.  [...] […]

During a recent episode of the television series “Mad Men” newcomer Faye Miller told the iconic Don Draper, “I don’t know how people drink the way you do around here. I’d fall asleep.” Miller serves as a proxy for those of us in the twenty-first century who are astonished at the amount of alcohol consumed [...] […]

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